How to control your child’s usage of the internet

IF you don’t want your children to spend the mid-term break on their smartphones or iPads, you’d better get organised.

Adolescents can spend up to 31 hours a week online, but this may not be healthy, especially given the recent controversy over the neknomination drinking game.

“Neknomination started with people in their 30s and quickly spread down to a younger age — people in their 20s and younger were trying to outdo each other,” says digital marketing and social media expert, Aoife Rigney.